Thursday, March 13, seven associations of elected officials (City & Banlieue de France, Association of Mayors of France, Association of Mayors of Ile-de-France, France Urban, Cities of France, Association of Small Cities of France, Intercommunalities in France) mobilized, in Essonne, to launch the “Call of Epinay-sous-Sénart”.
The objective: to try to register the subject of working -class neighborhoods in the political agenda. Elected officials call on the government to assess, think and rethink public policies in favor of these territories. Far from the political instrumentalizations which they are regularly the subject. They ask in particular “An interministerial roadmap forcing each ministry to measure the landing of credits in priority or for their inhabitants”.
More than seven years after the “Call of Grigny”, in October 2017 – a transpartisan approach then unprecedented aimed at raising awareness among the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, and his ministers, to the question of neighborhoods after the abolition of subsidized jobs and budget cuts -, the suburban mayors do not disarm. Since then, they have been blocking, whatever their political color, to alert on the territorial inequalities that are widening, the impoverishment of the inhabitants of their municipalities and the deterioration of their living conditions, to challenge successive governments on the lack of means and vision, to propose solutions and to recall that the policy of the city is above all an investment.
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